Vegetarian Websites:
General
Recipes
Nutrition Experts
Nutrition Information
- Happy Cow - Find a vegetarian restaurant near you.
- Soyfoods Association of North America, SANA - Fact sheets about different soy products.
- Upcoming Vegan and Vegetarian Events - hosted by Culinary Schools.org
- Vegetarian Resource Group - Nutrition, ingredient and all kinds of information, recipes, restaurant finder.
- Vegetarian Society of U.K.
- Vegetarian Times - Magazine website, recipes, articles.
- Vegetarian.About.com - Recipes, articles
- VegSource - Vegetarian news, events, celebrities, articles, recipes.
- VegWeb - Member submitted recipes, social media, member profiles.
- World's Healthiest Foods - Includes non-veg but has very detailed write ups for most fruits and veggies; history, nutritional values, how to cook.
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- Dr. Neil Barnard - Founded the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, PCRM, in 1985. Book; "Food for Life".
- Dr. T. Colin Cambell - Professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell. Published over 300 research papers. Lead scientist in the China-Oxford Cornell study on diet and disease, aka "The China Study". Featured in the "Forks over Knives" movie. On advisory board for PCRM.
- Dr Winston Craig - Professor of Nutrition and Chairman of the Nutrition & Wellness Department at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI, USA. (Seventh Day Adventist University). Good information for the lacto-ovo-vegetarian is available at his site vegetarian-nutrition.info.
- Brenda Davis, RD, Co-author of "Becoming Vegetarian". Past chair of the Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association.
- Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn - Physician, author, vegan. Esselstyn is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Nutrition Action magazine. Book; "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" Featured in the "Forks over Knives" movie.
- Dr. Joel Fuhrman - Board-certified family physician, and nutritional researcher, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods. He is the author of seven books including the New York Times bestseller "Eat to Live".
- Dr. Michael Gregor - Physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. He is a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He was featured on the Healthy Living Channel promoting his latest nutrition DVDs and honored to teach part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's esteemed nutrition course at Cornell University. Dr. Greger's nutrition work can be found at NutritionFacts.org
- Dr. David L. Katz - is the founding director (1998) of Yale University's Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, and current President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has published roughly 200 scientific articles and textbook chapters, and 15 books to date, including multiple editions of leading textbooks in both Preventive Medicine, and nutrition. Recognized globally for expertise in nutrition, weight management and the prevention of chronic disease, he has a social media following of well over half a million.".
- Dr. Michael Klaper - Physician, author, vegan.
- Dr. John A. McDougall - Physician and nutrition expert who teaches better health through vegetarian cuisine. He is the founder and medical director of the McDougall Program, a ten-day, residential program located in Santa Rosa, CA, where healing is promoted through proper diet and lifestyle changes. Books: "The Starch Solution", "The McDougall Plan: 12 Days to Dynamic Health"
- Vesanto Melina,MS, RD, Co-author of "Becoming Vegetarian".
- Virginia Messina, MPH, RD - Co-authored several books, including "The Vegetarian Way", and is a senior editor of the Vegetarian Nutrition and Health Letter from Loma Linda University.
- Dr. Dean Ornish - Widely known for his lifestyle-driven approach to treat coronary artery disease (CAD). Dr. Ornish and colleagues showed that a lifestyle regimen featuring meditation, a low-fat vegetarian diet, smoking cessation, and regular exercise could not only stop the progression of CAD, but could actually reverse it. Book; "Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease". He founded the
Preventive Medicine Research Institute
- Dr. Andrew Weil - Founder, professor, and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Not a vegetarian but be does echo most of the same diet principles promoted by the doctors above (except the low-fat part). Very balanced and sound perspective. Book: "Eating Well For Optimum Health"
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